Graduate Student Paper Competition

Deadline: 5/1/08


The Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division encourages graduate students to submit theoretical or empirical papers that address some aspect of the interrelation of conflict, social action, and change. The winner will be offered the opportunity to present the winning paper at the SSSP 2008 meeting in Boston, in addition to receiving a monetary prize of $100, SSSP conference registration, and a ticket to the SSSP awards banquet. The paper should be sole-authored and not exceed 30 double-spaced pages in length (including all notes, tables, and references). Please send an electronic copy of the paper prepared for blind review and a cover letter to: Suzanne Kurth, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, 901 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0490,